Kingship and State : The Buganda Dynasty / Christopher Wrigley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wrigley, Christopher.

Series:

Cambridge books online.

African Studies ; no. 88

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mythology, Ganda.

Oral tradition--Uganda.

Oral tradition.

Ganda (African people)--Kings and rulers.

Ganda (African people).

Uganda--History--To 1890.

Uganda.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Summary:

The pre-colonial kingdom of Buganda, nucleus of the present state of Uganda, has long attracted scholarly interest. Since written records are lacking entirely before 1862, historians have had to rely on oral traditions that were recorded from the end of the nineteenth century. These sources provide rich materials on Buganda in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, but Christopher Wrigley, a senior and highly respected scholar, endeavours to show that the stories that appear to relate to earlier periods are largely mythology. He argues that this does not reduce their value, since they are of interest in their own mythical right, revealing ancient traces of sacred kingship, and also throwing oblique light on the development of the recent state. The author has written an elegant, wide-ranging and original study of one of Africa's most famous kingdoms.

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ISBN:

9780511584763

9780521473705

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